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An appeals court has ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutionally funded. The Oct. 19 ruling, written by a three judge panel in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, invalidates the bureau’s 2017 payday lending rule limiting the collection options for payday lenders.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking public feedback on the consumer credit market.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a circular Jan. 19 affirming that companies offering “negative option” subscription services must comply with federal consumer financial protection law.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is looking to establish a public registry of the terms and conditions used by nonbanks in contracts that waive or limit consumer rights and protections.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is calling on the three largest consumer reporting agencies to improve the accuracy of their reports after nearly a half-million complaints were submitted to the agency from October 2021 to September 2022.
U.S. financial services firms are most concerned about keeping up “with the volume, scope and breadth of regulatory changes” heading into the new year, according to Wolters Kluwer’s annual Regulatory & Risk Management Indicator survey.